ABSTRACT

Given the increasing globalization of management and organization science (MOS), it has been suggested that scholarly communities examine the contributions of their contexts to the discipline. Accordingly, the contributions from Africa to MOS across the pre-modern, modern, and post-modern eras are examined using generative theory. Evidence from historical, philosophical, anthropological, and sociological sources demonstrates that significant contributions to MOS have originated from Africa. Even so, those contributions have not been acknowledged, especially in the post-modern era, due to the “writing out” of Africa. Several implications for research and pedagogy concerning MOS and Africa are considered given the current trend of decolonization.

摘要

鉴于管理和组织科学（MOS）日益全球化，有人建议学术界审视其背景对该学科的贡献。因此，我们使用生成理论来考察非洲在前现代、现代和后现代时期对 MOS 的贡献。来自历史、哲学、人类学和社会学来源的证据表明，对 MOS 的重大贡献源自非洲。即便如此，由于非洲的“书写”，这些贡献并没有得到承认，特别是在后现代时代。鉴于当前的非殖民化趋势，我们考虑了有关 MOS 和非洲的研究和教育学的若干影响。